wet firecracker | Idiomator

Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)A person,event, orobjectlackinglivelinessorfailingtogenerateexcitement, especially when there was apriorexpectationoflivelinessorexcitement.1973June 16, “Movie Review:Super Fly TNTContinues With His Adventures in Rome and Africa”, inNew York Times, retrieved16 October 2017:Coming after a fast, colorful movie likeSuper Fly, a follow-up calledSuper Fly TNTis awet firecracker.2006June 18, Richard Yamarone, “Confusion From the Fed Head”, inWashington Post, retrieved16 October 2017:After Bernanke's first semiannual testimony before Congress in February, I wrote to my clients that his appearance was essentially awet firecracker—he did not jolt the markets.2009,Tom Santopietro,Sinatra in Hollywood: The Film Career of a Screen Icon‎[1],→ISBN:[A]udiences sensibly enough found Lollobrigida and Sinatra to be awet firecrackerof a team.

Examples:

EN: I was afraid you were a wet firecracker, sister. Shake!
ES: Temía que fueras débil. ¡Mucho gusto!
EN: You start peddling your pasta somewhere else right now... because if you don't, I'll send you into orbit... with a blastoff that will make Friendship 7 look like a wet firecracker!
ES: Vete a vender tus tallarines a otra parte... porque si no lo haces, ¡te pondré en órbita... y saldrás despedida con tanta fuerza que el Friendship 7 será apenas un petardo!
EN: Eddie Ryan would have had as much razzle-dazzle as a wet firecracker.
ES: Eddie Ryan hubiera hecho el mismo ruido que un petardo mojado.
EN: You're talking about an impact that makes the dinosaur killer impact 65 million years ago look pretty much like a wet firecracker.
ES: Estás hablando de un impacto que hace que el impacto asesino de dinosaurios de hace 65 millones de años parezca un petardo mojado.
ES: En un período de alrededor de una millonésima de mil millonésima de una milmillonésima de milmillonésima de segundo, nuestro Universo se infló en más de 90 órdenes de magnitud en volumen y pasó del tamaño de un solo átomo al de una pelota de baloncesto

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